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But what begins in innocence turns to corruption; what starts as love turns into lust. As Lan suggests with a smoky atmosphere and shadowy masked watchers who glide around the stage, this is a society that is rotten to the core but always on the look-out for sin.

By the end Annabella remains untouched, almost virginal, a victim. But Law's Giovanni is beyond redemption. He kills his sister and his unborn baby with the sweet smile of the slaughterhouse executioner. Though he talks like a lover, his face has the sweaty pallor of one who is in the grip of a terrible sickness and his eyes have the glazed blankness of a raving psychopath. ”